On Saturday 15th January, the whole group met at Kerrin's house at 9.30 to make sure we had all the required equipment, cameras and tripods. After making sure we had all of these, we then sat down and went through a plan of action for the day. We decided that it would be best to run through the whole song with certain shot types each time, rather than having to keep cutting the song and only running through certain parts. This was to make sure that we had enough footage to cover the whole song so that we wouldnt have difficulties during post production. After talking for about an hour, we then all left at about 10.30am.
On route to Hertforshire, we picked up Helen Pearman who also does media studies and was in another group, and she would film our behind the scenes feature for the DVD extras. We arrived at 11.45 and Jamie then phoned the band to inform them we had arrived and at midday the whole band arrived and showed us into the location whilst they started unpacking. We all discussed where would be the best place to situate the band and then decided on the actual location because of the open space and great high angle views from the balcony's around the building. Once we confirmed that, the band started setting up in agreed areas. Whilst they were doing this, we asked for Helen to set up a camera facing straight on and film for the duration of setting up, this way for the DVD extras in post production we would fast forward it which is what many other artists use in their behind the scenes. We then just asked Helen to film whatever she could of us directing the band and talking them through what we wanted to do and achieve.
Having taken in the location, we discussed as a group the ways in which we could use our surroundings, and decided to alter the beginning. We started with Steve, Alan W, and Mark all walking in from different areas of the factory and coming together before starting to play. During these shots we used low angle close ups of each members instruments and then zoomed out to reveal the artist, this was what I wanted to create since researching into other rock bands music video. To show them all walk in together we used a high angle shot from two different balcony's to show the bands isolationism. All of this is going to be put before the music track even starts and the process of shooting these few seconds took much longer than we anticipated. After this we looked at the storyboard and decided to set up 3 cameras on the floor, one focused on the guitarist, one focused on the bass guitarist and the other on the lead singer. These would each be manned by one of us, and a final camera was put up on the balcony to get the high angle shot, but we made sure that all the cameras were out of view. We ran through the song twice with the cameras in these positions, however on both occasions Steve's guitar strap came off half way through the song, however we still decided to proceed on and change the shot types to save time going over the same part of the song.
On the change, I decided that the song needed lots of close up shots, so we proceeded to move all three cameras forward so they each had a closeup of the front 3 memebers. We then bought the camera from the balcony down and situated it to the side to focus on the drummer so that he wasn't excluded from the band. I then just asked the band to repeat the song and their actions so that we could get continuity, though it wasnt as important for the rock genre. After each take, we gave the band a short break whilst we moved the cameras to the next position. After a few hours of filming, we were aware that Jamie needed to be back for work at 4, so we should think about leaving at 2.30. With this in mind we decided to get as many different shot types in as few takes as possible. I asked each member to do something different, and get in some low angle shots and then near the end of the song, Kerrin and I would move to the back behind the drummer and get some shots of the whole band, but we had to be careful not to get the members of our group in shot.
Eventually we called it a wrap, and because of the lateness we decided that we would do our interviews with the band at a later date, but we had the main footage which was very important. I feel that I worked well with the other memebers of the group and ensured that any decisions on shots were justified and also approved by the other members too. I think in particular, Kerrin and I worked well together talking through what we were going to do which I think is crucial for any media project to work well.
Before we left, Paige took some promotional stills of the band in position and during the duration of filming she also took plenty of behind the scenes shots to include in the DVD extras package. Helen also did a great job in getting plenty of footage and we will watch through this once we're back at school to start thinking about how we will include it into the DVD extras.
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